Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merely to help them cope with an emergency." He and his men, American and British, have worked on that principle ever since. Within two or three days, most of the essential services were at least in partial operation. Civil Affairs men had even helped to reopen a Cherbourg cinema, revive a local newspaper...
...Reason. Mitchell Paige, no cinema gyrene, was a quietly savvy guy. He neither smoked, drank, nor swore (his most rugged expletive was saved for the Japs: "damned slopeheads"). In Samoa he nursed a child through fever, was appointed by the natives as "Talking Chief"-tribal adviser...
Married. Lionel Atwill, 59, matinee idol of the '20s, now coasting along in Grade B cinema horrors (Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man); and Mary Paula Shilston, 28. concert singer and radio writer; he for the fourth time; in Las Vegas...
...Danny") Danker Jr., 41, fireball advertising man (J. Walter Thompson); of a heart attack; in Hollywood. At 24, Phillips Exeter and Harvard-educated, Danker arrived in Hollywood scared stiff, green as grass, with a cultivated Brooklyn accent and a way about him that eventually collared the biggest names in cinema for such radio shows as Lux, Kraft Music Hall, Charlie McCarthy...
...activities of Russian guerrillas, credited with destroying more than a half-million German soldiers. The film is fragmentary, a merely average Russian documentary (aside from its subject). But it resembles They Met in Moscow in so far as the instinct for poetic realism-the dead center of most good cinema-is almost a national Russian characteristic...